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Chapter Seven
Escape from Constipation
The root of human body is the gastrointestinal system! If the internal gastrointestinal environment is not clean, wastes and by products of our metabolism leads to chronic diseases. Let us drink good water on regular basis to ensure internal health and maintain clean internal gastrointestinal environment.
* Digestive System is the Root of Human Body!
Unhealthy folks tend not to drink water. Therefore it is important to state the reasons why everyone needs to drink lots of water. If you park a car underneath a tree, and leave it there for awhile, you may ruin the car's paint job thanks to bird droppings. Furthermore, you may have seen statutes made of bronze or stone corroded due to bird droppings. Bird droppings contain high concentration of acids, high enough even to corrode rocks.
The best ph level for a healthy body, that is having enough alkalinity within is about 7.45 to 7.35 ph level.
The ph level, which is a measurement of acidity and alkalinity, is scaled from 1 to 14. The ph 7 level is the neutral level, if it is below 7, than it is called acidic, and lower the number the stronger the acidity. The opposite holds where above 7 is referred to as alkalinity.
As our bodies are made up of living cells, the internal ph level inside the cells must be between ph 7.45 to ph 7.35 to ensure healthy presence of alkalinity within. Optimal internal cellular processing of enzymes occurs at a level of ph 7.45. To ensure the proper alkalinity level within cells, water has to flow at a rapid rate. That is the only way to ensure waste products generated by cells can be washed away. When acid accumulates within the cells, the sensitive nucleus of DNA may suffer and eventually die or turn cancerous; therefore everyone needs to drink lots of water.
In the old days, folks used to say that drinking lots of water brings good luck. Now, if you drink good water like electrolyzed water, what can be better?
When there is a tree, there are leaves, branches, and roots; now which do you think is the most important part of a tree? Obviously it is the roots of the tree. Without roots, a tree can not thrive or even survive.
As trees have roots, human bodies have roots. It is none other than the digestive or the gastrointestinal system. The food we eat is absorbed through our digestive system, comparable to roots of a tree. Within a human body, there are over 60 trillion cells, and within human digestive system there are over 100 trillion microorganisms consisting of over 100 types. Therefore the gastrointestinal system is one of the most critical parts of human machine.
Even if we indulge in the best food money can buy, it would all be wasted if the gastrointestinal system can not properly absorb it. As strong healthy roots mean a strong healthy tree, our gastrointestinal system must be healthy and strong in order for us to be healthy and strong.
* Good Water Facilitates the Gastrointestinal System
The gastrointestinal system requires large amounts of water in order to break down the food we eat. The gastrointestinal system breaks down the food to extract essential elements which is dissolved and distributed throughout the body by the circulation of blood.
Leftovers and wastes not broken down by the gastrointestinal system travel down through the intestines and are compressed in order to be discharged from the body. The waste water used to break down food and dissolve nutrients are processed through the large intestine, and acts as a lubricant.
More water present inside the body ensures better re-absorption of water, and presence of plentiful water aids the intestines to extract water and compress waste materials. Therefore, if there is not enough water within, gastrointestinal activities necessarily slow down. This is due to the fact that it takes longer time to extract moisture out of waste materials within the intestines.
Large intestines work hard to prevent loss of moisture by controlling density and flow of waste materials, but if there is a lack of abundant water the large intestine has
harder time processing the waste materials and too much moisture ends up being extracted from the waste materials, making it difficult to discharge them.
To prevent this from happening, we must eat more foods high in fiber as they are highly efficient in utilizing water within our bodies, and of course drinking lots of water is the most important way to avoid constipation.
* I May Fool Mother Nature, But I Can Not Fool My Own Bowel Movement
A few years ago, a television documentary showed Dr. Mo from the Seoul National University Hospital using electrolyzed water to treat constipation sufferers with very good results. Majority of patients suffering from cancer in the large intestine sharing something in common: constipation. Constipation is a medical condition which needs to be resolved as a healthy rule of thumb. You may be able to fool Mother Nature, but you can not fool your own bowel movement. The condition of a person's stool is a reflection of the person's gastrointestinal health, and a true indicator of how the gastrointestinal environment is working.
If you visit those villages famed for many folks living way past average life span, let's call it "Eldersville", and spend about 10 to 15 days there, noxious odors from your stool will noticeably lessen, and even the color of stool will become golden brown color. If one's odor of stool is overpowering, or he or she breaks wind often accompanied by noxious odor, trying to become healthy in such state is like climbing a tree to look for a fish. Some folks visit restroom, and spray themselves with air freshener due to noxious odor; this is truly an exercise in futility.
Spraying yourself with air freshener after a visit to the bathroom does nothing to get rid of noxious odor; rather it shows ignorance of why such obnoxious odor emanates
from your own stool and what it signifies about the internal health, and how harmful it is to the body.
Noxious odors from stool consist of:
I. Hydrogen sulfide
II. Ammonia
III. Histamine
IV. Nitrosamines
V. Phenol
VI. Indol (C8H7N) and other toxic materials
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I. Hydrogen Sulfide: Hydrogen sulfide is a very noxious substance. On August 21, 1986, hydrogen sulfide eruptions in the Atlantic Ocean off southern Africa caused hundreds to die in their sleep. One boy whom miraculously survived described his ordeal by stating that, "I woke up because it became really hard to breathe at night, and it smelled like rotten eggs." If a family member in a household has liver disease, a particular odor of rotten eggs will pervade that household. The noxious odor is not due to the liver illness but due to the toxic materials which can not be properly processed by the liver; therefore it is an indicator that a person may end up with a serious liver disease. II. Ammonia: Ammonia is so obnoxious that many folks can not even stand smelling it. People with higher level of ammonia are prone to anxiety and are easily angered. A person with a weakened or malfunctioning liver may lose consciousness due to the inability for liver to get rid of ammonia accumulated in the blood. III. Histamine: Histamine causes abscess, eczema, hives, asthma and atopic dermatitis. This toxic substance is produced primarily by microorganisms in the intestines. IV. Nitrosamines: Nitrosamines are infamous for causing cancer. V. Phenol: A very toxic substance which adversely affects human skin. VI. Indol: Rotting onion smell is due to indol and it is also responsible for germs and microbes to propagate in human intestines. When indol was mixed in with food for animals, it was shown to cause leukemia, inflammation of lymphatic glands, malignant tumors, and cancer of the bladder. |
Inside human intestines, it is said that there are 100 trillion microorganisms consisting of over 100 different types.
Some of them are beneficial to our continued health, such as bifidus and lactobacillus, which breaks down vitamin and amino acids to release nutrients, whereas clostridium perfringens and salmonella are harmful to humans producing and releasing toxic proteins. Increasing numbers of harmful microorganisms is a signal that gastrointestinal environment is under distress.
Fresh water fishes require clear unadulterated water for survival; they would not survive for long in polluted water, comparatively speaking if the internal environment of the gastrointestinal system deteriorates, beneficial microorganisms will decrease in numbers while the harmful microorganisms will proliferate in numbers.
Drinking clean healthy water invigorates the gastrointestinal environment, encourages beneficial microorganisms to multiply in numbers, and reduces incidents of gastrointestinal related problems leading to bowel movements with less noxious odors and good colors.
To improve gastrointestinal environment, it is a good idea to avoid foods with toxic substances like agricultural chemicals and preservatives, but the most important thing is to drink water which lacks oxidative power.
While there are hundreds of different types of water, they can be divided into two large categories. That is water which has the power to oxidize and the other water with power to deoxidize.
As water represents a large volume of human body, it makes no sense to drink oxidative water, lactic acid laced drinks, or soft drinks and hope for improvement.
The reason why folks' stool condition improves in a place like Eldersville is due to the fact that gastrointestinal environment gets cleared up, and the reason why the gastrointestinal environment improves is due to the good water they drink.
If this is true, how can we ever hope to improve our health, if the root of our health, the gastrointestinal environment has been compromised? This is why water is so important and central to our health,
If you drink deoxidizing water, your bowel movement will improve. Your stool will become less noxious, and even if you suffered from constipation for a long period of time, not only will the constipation problem disappear but your stool will become golden brown color. This is because thanks to the good water you drink your gastrointestinal environment is improved, beneficial microorganisms will increase in numbers, and ultimately your health will be improved as a result.
Would it not be a great idea to drink deoxidizing water to encourage beneficial microorganisms?